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A few days ago our dryer started complaining about a blocked airway, so I went up on the roof to check out the vent and sure enough the screen was completely clogged with lint.
It's a new vent that was installed along with a new roof in November, so I imagine I'll have to go up there and clean it out every 3-4 months.
Is this really part of regular home maintenance? Neither my wife nor I recall our parents ever doing this sort of thing.
Your parents did not have a screen at the exhaust vent terminal either. Somebody installed the wrong type of vent cap on the dryer vent. Dryers are particularly dependent on much free flowing air for proper operation. All dryer exhaust air is full of fabric lint. Fabric Lint will always clog a screen. Either replace the existing cap with the right one, (screen free) or jerk the screen out of that thing and live happily ever after!
The screen at the vent keeps animals out, so it is useful, although not always used. One thing you can do is add a lint trap to your ducts, so you don't have to climb the roof.
